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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "devil's staircase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "everlasting staircase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "moving staircase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "Penrose staircase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "spiral staircase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "staircase lock"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "staircase wit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "staircasing"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "stair",
"3": "case"
},
"expansion": "stair + case",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From stair + case.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "staircases",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "staircase (plural staircases)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"stair‧case"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, “13 Candles”, performed by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats:",
"text": "I was on the staircase by the bell / Blinded by the black magician's spell",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A flight of stairs; a stairway."
],
"id": "en-staircase-en-noun-ExUJcEzt",
"links": [
[
"flight",
"flight"
],
[
"stairway",
"stairway"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "trappe"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "shkallë"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bayt ad-daraj",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَيْت اَلدَّرَج"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "daraj",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دَرَج"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sullam",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سُلَّم"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "biir esselem",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "بير السلم"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "selem",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "سلم"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "sanduġkʻ",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "սանդուղք"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "khotkhoti",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "খটখটী"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "pilləkən"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "baśqıs",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "баҫҡыс"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ljésvica",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ле́свіца"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "sxódy",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "схо́ды"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "usxódy",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "усхо́ды"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭsxódy",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ўсхо́ды"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "śōpan",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "সোপান"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stǎlbište",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "стълбище"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "hleka:",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "လှေကား"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escala"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "樓梯"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "lau⁴ tai¹",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "楼梯"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "樓梯"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lóutī",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "楼梯"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "schodiště"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schody"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trappe"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trap"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "rwd",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "r-w-d-O40"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ŝtuparo"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "trepp"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "portaat"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "portaikko"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escalier"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳibe",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "კიბე"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Treppe"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "klimakostásio",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κλιμακοστάσιο"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skála",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σκάλα"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "dādro",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "દાદરો"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "jīno",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "જીનો"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "sopān",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "સોપાન"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "madregót",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "מַדְרֵגוֹת"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "sīṛhī",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "सीढ़ी"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "sopān",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "सोपान"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "lépcsőház"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stigi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "eskalero"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "scala"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scalinata"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tromba delle scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"alt": "かいだん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaidan",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "階段"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"alt": "きざはし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kizahashi",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "階"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "saty",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "саты"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "basqyş",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "басқыш"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cɔɔcŭəndaə",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ជណ្ដើរ"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"alt": "階段",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gyedan",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "계단"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "şatı",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "шаты"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "baskıc",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "баскыч"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "tepkic",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "тепкич"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ka dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ກະໄດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ban dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ບັນໄດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lo",
"english": "khan dai",
"lang": "Lao",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ຂັ້ນໄດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "scalaria"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kāpnes"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laiptinė"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "laiptai"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Trap"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "skálište",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ска́лиште"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "arakaupae"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "šat",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "шат"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "tlamamatlatl"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "bharyāṅ",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "भर्याङ"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Jersey",
"feminine"
],
"word": "montée"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Jersey",
"masculine"
],
"word": "d'gré"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Jersey",
"masculine"
],
"word": "êcalyi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trapp"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trapp"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "nerdiban",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "نردبان"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pellekân",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "پلکان"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "schody"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klatka schodowa"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escadaria"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scară"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "casa scării"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "léstnica",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ле́стница"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "léstničnaja klétka",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ле́стничная кле́тка"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "staidhre"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "степениште"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "стубиште"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "stepenište"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "stubište"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "schodisko"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "stopnišče"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "st",
"lang": "Sotho",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ditepisi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escalera"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "gradas"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "escalinata"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trappa"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "hagdanan"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "zinapoya",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "зинапоя"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "nardbon",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "нардбон"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "grà-dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "กระได"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ban-dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "บันได"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "merdiven"
},
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
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"sense": "stairway",
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "လှေကား"
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"word": "კიბე"
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "stairway",
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "gu",
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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"code": "gu",
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"sense": "stairway",
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"sense": "stairway",
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"sense": "stairway",
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"plural"
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "lépcsőház"
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "stigi"
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{
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "eskalero"
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"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "scala"
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{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scalinata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"word": "階段"
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"word": "階"
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"word": "саты"
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"word": "басқыш"
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{
"code": "km",
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ជណ្ដើរ"
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "계단"
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"word": "шаты"
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{
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "тепкич"
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"code": "lo",
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"roman": "ka dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ກະໄດ"
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{
"code": "lo",
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"roman": "ban dai",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ບັນໄດ"
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{
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"sense": "stairway",
"word": "ຂັ້ນໄດ"
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"sense": "stairway",
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"word": "kāpnes"
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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"plural"
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"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Trap"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "skálište",
"sense": "stairway",
"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "stairway",
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{
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"roman": "bharyāṅ",
"sense": "stairway",
"word": "भर्याङ"
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],
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"word": "پلکان"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "stairway",
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"tags": [
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],
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"plural"
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"code": "es",
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"plural"
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"tags": [
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"code": "uz",
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"code": "uz",
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"code": "uz",
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"sense": "stairway",
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],
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"2": "stair",
"3": "case"
},
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"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From stair + case.",
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{
"word": "jaggies"
},
{
"word": "staircasing effect"
}
],
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"English transitive verbs"
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{
"ref": "2006, Nikos Paragios, Yunmei Chen, Olivier D. Faugeras, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:",
"text": "This leads to much smoother reconstructions in regions of moderate gradient and thus prevents staircasing.",
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}
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"(transitive) To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps."
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"ref": "2018, Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace, Ownership, Narrative, Things, Springer, →ISBN, page 139:",
"text": "It is a good idea to make plans for staircasing when you first buy your shared ownership home.",
"type": "quote"
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"To increase one's share in a co-ownership."
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"(real estate) To increase one's share in a co-ownership."
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"real-estate"
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